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The true beauty of New York, of course, is public transit. In L.A., it's safe to assume that most of the folks on most of the freeways are more than a little drunk on most of the evenings. But here, subways! cabs! walking! We don't drive drunk not because we're good or pure or noble; we don't drive drunk because we don't drive.

Except, that is, for Richard Johnson, who apparently can't quite get the message. After the jump, a New York Observer account of his previous NYC DUI, on Oscar night 1997, as successfully* exhumed today by the Transomulent Choire Sicha.

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No wonder he knew to refuse the Breathalyzer.

* We were hours away. Mere hours! And would have gotten there first if only Bobst Library archived old Observers! You win this time, Sicha.

Richard Johnson's 1997 DUI Arrest [Daily Transom/NYO]
Earlier:
 Unsubstantiated Rumor-Mongering: Richard Johnson Arrested for Drunk Driving?
RJ's DUI: A Misdemeanor, a Violation, and a Cute Little Ford Escape